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Originally Posted by gideongallery
ah i see so your fudging the number to include music video production in the total cost of producing the RECORD.
the scum bag is strong in you my friend
all the kickstarter campaigns are just for the RECORD deal.
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WTF are you talking about? I don't say anything about music videos anywhere in what I wrote. Are you off your meds again?
BTW music video production is almost always a cost recouped by the artist as part of the promotion costs of the album and they don't see a dime of royalties until that money is paid back. They don't just pay back their advance and and record production costs and then suddenly get to start pocketing money from tour.
If that is the critera then I have 2 more examples.
1. Aerosmith. I mentioned them above. They signed a deal that gave them $10 million in advance money per album. They spent a ton of money producing those albums because they would live big, stay in nice places, record in exotic locals and bill it all to the label as production costs. The sales of their royalty share of the record sales never covered those costs yet they toured the world in stadiums and made millions.
2. No Doubt. When they were at the height of their fame the got a deal similar to the Aerosmith deal. They would do things like go to Jamaica for a month to record and bill it all to production. Their royalties never covered that amount, but they sold out stadiums world wide and banked tens of millions of dollars from it.
Again, I'm sure their are others.